Principal Engineer, Data Platform

About the role

About AlphaSense:

AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain-specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high-quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com. Come join us.

About the Role:

AlphaSense runs a large-scale, Kubernetes-native platform built on a modern microservices architecture, serving the majority of the Fortune 500. We are moving it to a cell-based architecture, where each cell is an independent deployment of the platform.

The hardest part is data. Our platform relies on a broad ecosystem of data platforms and storage systems, including Vespa, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis, ScyllaDB, PostgreSQL, Temporal, and Kafka, to name a few. This role is focused on the Data Platform: the capabilities that let engineering teams build, run, and scale their storage at large scale without each team becoming an expert in every system.

You will help set the technical direction for the Data Platform and build it rather than only specify it. A central part of the work is building the capabilities for large-scale data migrations, so we can create, move, split, and rebalance data across cells and geographies as the cell-based architecture rolls out.

We prefer managed solutions over self-hosted ones, and we expect engineers to own their storage. Teams run what they build, and this role makes that model work at scale: you build it, you run it, and you scale it. Your job is to give teams the platform, standards, and tooling to do that safely, and to own the reliability and scalability of the platform itself.

Responsibilities:

- Help set the architecture and roadmap for the Data Platform and the storage ecosystem behind it

- Build the capabilities for large-scale data migrations across cells, regions, and geographies, including tooling for moving, splitting, validating, and rolling back data with minimal downtime

- Enable product teams self-service ways to provision, operate, and scale their own storage

- Drive the data-layer changes that cell-based architecture requires, including data placement, tenant routing, replication, and isolation

- Define and apply the managed-first approach: choose managed services where they fit, and build and run self-managed systems only where there is a clear reason